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Saturday, May 17 2008, 9:46 PM

This was a show that I had greatly anticipated for a long time. Opeth and Dream Theater are easily two of my favorite bands, so when I saw them both on the same bill many months ago, I was pretty excited. Both bands put on great live shows as well, so I knew I wouldn't be disappointed. I made the trek down to Detroit with my dad, Jessica, and Mike.

The first band to play was 3. I thought that we'd get there with plenty of time to see the opening bands, but we didn't. We only caught the last part of one of their songs. It sounded pretty good though, from the five minutes or so that we heard. They had a two drummer setup going, and they were seriously beating on the skins. I would have liked to see more of their set, but alas, it wasn't meant to be. Grade: N/A

Between the Buried and Me played second. I hadn't really been exposed to them in great depth, and for some reason I had the impression that they were going to be another dripping-with-testosterone type band (like Throwdown or Bury Your Dead), but I was pleasantly surprised that they weren't. They do have the crappy barking vocals that is typical for a hardcore/metalcore band, but their music is way more complex. These guys can flat out play, and they pull a ton of different musical styles into their sound. It makes for a pretty cool experience. They only had a half hour so on stage, and they played all of two distinct songs. They wasted no time with blathering between songs either... they pretty much stopped only to announce the name of the second song and get a drink of water, then started playing again. They definitely merited further attention, which is why I bought three of their CDs yesterday. Grade: A

Opeth is the band that I looked forward to seeing the most out of the four. I've only seen them once before (compared to Jessica's ten[!]), and that was an abbreviated set at last year's Gigantour, where they were only able to play four songs. They ended up getting around an hour on stage this time around, and were able to play six songs - Master's Apprentices, In My Time of Need, Baying of the Hounds, Heir Apparent, Wreath, and The Drapery Falls. They had a pretty good sampling of songs from their newer albums, but none from the older four albums, which kind of disappoints me. "Still Life" and "My Arms, Your Hearse" are my favorite albums of theirs, and with two shows under my belt, I've yet to see them play any songs from those albums live. Oh well... there's always next time! Mikael Akerfeldt does a pretty good job of making the breaks between songs interesting as well. He's always got something funny to say, and it's pretty obvious to me that he genuinely enjoys putting on a show for the crowd. Grade: A

Dream Theater closed out the show in the way that only they can - with authority. This was the fourth time that my dad and I saw Dream Theater together, and they've never once disappointed. I've blathered on and on about how good they are in previous posts about them, so I'll try to save it this time around. This was the first time, however, that I saw them without having heard their most recent release. Their previous release ("Octavarium"), seemed kind of tired to me, and didn't really grab my interest much at all. Because of that, I didn't run out and grab their newest ("Systematic Chaos") when it came out last year. I probably should have grabbed it sooner. They played a few tunes from it, and they were pretty good. They opened the set with an instrumental passage from one of those songs, and I was really digging it. Their set list was expansive, and pretty typical for the shows I've seen. They played a good sampling from their albums, and played most of the first act from "Scenes from a Memory". They didn't play "Home," which kind of pissed me off since it is one of my favorite songs of theirs, but hey, you can't win 'em all.

One neat thing they did for this tour was turning something that is typically incredibly lame into something totally awesome. Jordan Rudess (the keyboardist) played a key-tar. Yep, the dreaded 80's pop instrument. In this case though, it was sweet because it gave him the opportunity to step out from behind is mammoth keyboard rig and get up close and personal with the fans like the other band members get to do. He mostly used it in extended "improvised" musical passages that break out of their normal song structures, and used his mobility to add a more visual flare to the frequent traded/harmonized leads that he does with John Petrucci in so many of their songs. I laughed when I first saw it, but it really did add a pretty cool element to their performance, which was already top notch.

The only downer in the show was that they played one of their new songs (I think - I didn't recognize it) for far too long, and it totally slowed their momentum. It was a slow piece of music, and it seemed to go on FOR EVER. Otherwise, they were phenomenal as always. Grade: A

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Thursday, August 18 2005, 1:48 AM

It would seem that I've been lax on my site updates again. It's easy for me to tell that I need to update more when my mom tells me that I need to post something.

The past week has actually been somewhat eventful, unlike the weeks before it. Last wednesday the Gigantour came into town, bringing much sweet music our way. Three of my favorite bands were there - Fear Factory, Dream Theater, and Megadeth - plus a few others that I wanted to see. We arrived at the show at about three, and after a short time we found that we had missed Nevermore's set due to a misinterpretation of the scheduling between the two stages. We were rather pissed, but we got over it I guess. Symphony X was pretty sweet, and all of the main stage bands were awesome except Dillinger Escape Plan. I thought they sounded like a steaming pile of dung. Matt says they're a lot better on CD. I hope he's right. They didn't impress me at all live. Fear Factory was sweet, as usual. Dream Theater was awesome as well, but to me their mix was too loud before the amplification, and it was causing their sound to be overdriven a bit. Megadeth was totally on, and Dave Mustaine sounded great. In the previous Megadeth shows I've seen he's always seemed to struggle with some of his more snarly vocals, but this time around he nailed them all. Excellent show all the way around.

My friend Annie got married this weekend as well. Unlike last year, where I lost nearly a dozen close friends to marriage, this wedding season has been rather tame, which is good. It makes me feel old when people my age bow out of the game. Anyways, I'm normally somewhat bummed when I go to weddings, because it seems like I'm always one of the slim minority of single people. Everybody is always so happy at weddings, but it always seems to remind me that I'm single, and have been single for a loooong time. Well, this wedding turned out different! I'm not going to go into detail here, because it involed me dancing, and nobody should ever hear a detailed description of said events. It's just too traumatic. Regardless, I had a *great* time, and who knows, there may be more great times in the future!

I've been on the midnight shift this week, which is never fun. I think the only good thing about this shift is that I don't have to wake up to an alarm clock. Oh well. I volunteered for it to help a buddy in a bind, so I have nobody to blame but myself. I'm dragging ass right now because I went out to the Peanut Barrel with Kate before work and had a few beers. Mental note: Drinking before a night shift is bad. You tend to want to sleep, and that can't really happen at work.

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Monday, April 18 2005, 12:05 AM

Shit, I meant to write up this post like two weeks ago, but Galeon ate it about 2 minutes before I was done writing it up, so I just said "screw it" and went to bed instead of typing it all up again. I guess I forgot to retype it. Well, here it is.

This summer looks as though it will be sweet for concerts. Ozzfest has a lineup that I definitely want to check out. Iron Maiden, Shadows Fall, Mastodon, and Black Label Society will be there, along with a few other bands that I want to see. I've never been to Ozzfest before, so it should be interesting. Dave Mustaine of Megadeth is putting together a similar show this year called "Gigantour", and its lineup excites me even more than the Ozzfest lineup. Dream Theater and Fear Factory will appear with Megadeth, which means 3 of my favorite bands will all be present in one place. It should be quite awesome.

I recently picked up a few albums that are worth mentioning. I grabbed "The Art of Balance" and "Of One Blood" by Shadows Fall. They're both really good, but the production quality on "Of One Blood" is a bit worse than "The Art of Balance." You can tell they hadn't hit it big yet. The good thing is that the songs have been better and better as the band matures. Lots of bands tend to lose their creative spark after a few good albums, but, thankfully, Shadows Fall doesn't seem to have done that. They've done nothing but get better. They give me faith that good metal isn't an art that has been lost upon my generation.

The other two albums I picked up were "Hatebreeder" and "Hatecrew Deathroll" by Children of Bodom. Their vocals still suck pretty bad, but they still seem to mix the albums so they're not as prominent as they could be, which is good. They're both sweet albums musically, with tons of energy and some crazy solos. The latter album is better in my opinion, but the former jams too. COB also is following the pattern of improving with each album released, so I can hope that the best is yet to come.

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Monday, September 13 2004, 9:14 PM

Yup, my tour of night shifts has begun anew. Two weeks straight of working 12am-8am. Judging by the condition of Joe and Phil after their night shifts, things have become a lot busier during the overnights, but having the new guy, Bryan, working 8pm-4am does help out. Last night was pretty slow... hopefully that trend continues.

I got bored today and decided to take another foray into faux-7-string guitar playing... I had a set of 7-strings laying around after my string purchase blunder of a few months ago, so I strung up the Strat with those. I doubt I'll be able to play them too loud though. I played for a bit today, and just about anything played on the low B made every metallic surface resonate like crazy. The effect was intensified when I switched towards the neck pickups. Unfortunately for me, the neck pickups sound coolest without distortion, and I've become fond of playing the opening part of "A Change of Seasons" by Dream Theater. So it's either quiet, or louder with more noise. Grr. I've been meaning to hook up the recording crap for a while now, so perhaps I'll do that while I'm on nights and everyone else is at work.

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Friday, April 16 2004, 12:31 AM

Matt sent me this video clip today, showing John Petrucci doing what he does best - totally kicking ass on the guitar. The environment seems like it's a small venue, and he's taking Q&A from the audience too. But then he lights up the guitar, playing a piano piece by Chopin that was written using Chromatic scales... totally crazy. I stand by a statement I made a when I first started really listening to Dream Theater - If I could play like John Petrucci for a day, I probably wouldn't ever need to play guitar again.

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Wednesday, March 24 2004, 10:17 PM

This show came with great anticipation for me. Not only is Dream Theater pretty much my favorite band, but seeing them at the State Theatre gave me the opportinity to see them up close without being chained to a specific seat. They were scheduled to do what few bands can pull off - play two complete sets - and considering the energy level at which they play, that's like four sets for any normal band. We gathered a pretty huge contingent for the journey... 7 people made the journey down with me, and Matt's group was 5 strong. I was prepared for a sweet show, and they didn't disappoint...

Dream Theater opened the show with a brief history of the band set to their music of the same vintage as the imagery. It started with their days as Majesty and progressed through the conversion to Dream Theater, and up to the music of today. They opened up their first set with As I Am and This Dying Soul from Train of Thought, and everything else after that is a blur. I found it hard to focus on anything else but the sheer musical madness going on up on the stage, so actually remembering what was going on is a bit difficult. One thing that stands out in my mind is their digressions from the normal song flow into extended and seemingly improvosational jams. The first was the most memorable... I think they digressed from a section towards the end of Beyond This Life if I remember correctly. Jordan Rudess opened it up with some completely insane classical piano stuff, and Mike Portnoy joined in with some off the wall percussion on the wood blocks and whatever else is in his Siamese Monster drum kit. The way they played off each other was really sweet. One guy would lay down a light-speed barrage of notes, and the moment he stopped, the other would let rip with a flurry of equal intensity. It was a spectacle. And as quickly as it started, it ended, and they started right back up where they left off in the song they digressed from. There were other such episodes with other members of the band, but that first one was the most memorable.

John Petrucci was simply incredible, as usual, and the set list the band chose seemed to be concentrated on letting him flex his muscles with the 7-string guitar. They played most of their 7-string songs, which made for a hard-crunching night. They played all of the Train of Thought album, which is recorded exclusively on 7-strings if I hear correctly, Caught in a Web (played a half step up if I heard correctly), The Mirror, and Lie. They weren't just dropping the bottom out though, they did play a few of their slower ballads, like Another Day, Trail of Tears, and Finally Free. A strange trend that I saw was that they didn't play any of the 'classics' that I would have expected to hear at one of their shows, especially since they played for a solid 3 hours. They didn't play Pull Me Under, Metropolis, Under a Glass Moon, Learning to Live, none of the Mind Beside Itself songs, Lines in the Sand, or Home. I can understand that bands get sick of playing the same songs all the time, but at least two or three of those songs are always in order.

Even though they didn't play all of the favorites, it was still an incredible show. A couple of the people that went with our groups had never seen Dream Theater before, and I do believe that they were sufficiently impressed. If you've got any appreciation for music, I don't see how it's possible to not to be in awe of the sheer skill level they posess. I can't wait for the next time they come around. I'll be there. Grade: A+

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Tuesday, January 27 2004, 12:27 AM

Yup, fell asleep on the couch watching Family Guy again. I was supposed to do laundry tonight, but alas, it doesn't look like that was meant to be. Instead I slept, and then rummaged all over my room looking for a piece of paper with the PID for my Student Loan account with Uncle Sam, only to later find out that the information was saved in the form on my computer, rendering my 45 minutes of searching and frustration completely unnecessary. Fun.

For anybody that is cool and even for those that are not, there are two sweet concerts rolling around Southeast Michigan way in the coming months, and yours truely will definitely be there sacrificing my hearing up on the altair of sweet music in order to see them. Dream Theater is playing the State Theater in Detroit on March 22 and Iced Earth is playing Harpos on April 24. Dream Theater is touring by themselves and playing a two-set show with an intermission, so that should be crazy sweet. Not too many bands can play for that long, but they definitely can. I may be more pumped about the Iced Earth Show though... I've only seen them briefly in a live setting, at one of the Megadeth shows I caught in 2001 before Megadeth broke up. That's what got me interested in them, and it's all downhill from there... ;) It should be sweet to see them, and even cooler since they're headlining. I can't wait.

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Monday, November 17 2003, 10:33 PM

November 11th marked the release date of the latest Dream Theater album, "Train of Thought." I've been looking forward to this one for a while now, and I defintely think it was worh the wait. I don't know if it's on par with some of their other albums like Scenes From a Memory or Images and Words, but I don't think it was supposed to be one of those kind of albums. I read a blurb mentioning something about the band saying this was written as a Metal album from day one, and that it certainly is. They bring a bunch of sweet riffs and crushing rhythms to the table, and spice them up with their usual pizazz of sweet solos and time/tempo changes, albeit not as many. They seemed to be going for a record with more of an extended groove, instead of playing a sweet riif for 10 seconds then changing to another riff on a different time signature, then repeating. Combine that with the metal attack, and you get some serious headbanging potential.

As I Am - DT released the radio edit of this song on their website a few weeks before the album was released, and I snapped it up really quick. It starts out with some cool distorted bass harmonics, and then goes into a full 7 string swing. One of the things that made me happy about this album is that John Petrucci pulled out the 7 string guitar for this album and didn't put it away. Too many assclown bands today use 7 strings to be tough and cool, but they never really use any more than the two low strings. If they do make it to the high strings, it's just for annoying dissonant chords played over and over that just make your ears want to pick up and move out of your head. John Petrucci goes from low B all the way to 24 on the high E, and everywhere in between. One thing about this song it's definitely following a radio-type formula... lots of verse, chorus, verse-chorus, then the obligatory guitar solo (no keyboard solo, what a travesty), and then a couple more verse-choruses, then done. The song still has plenty of cool instrumental moments, and weighs in at 7:47, so it's not like its totally radio friendly. I actually heard it on the radio the other night though, so it's out there.

This Dying Soul - This song opens up freakin heavy. A big low B power chord followed by a thundering herd of bass drums, then it blasts right into a full blown guitar solo, then a keyboard solo. This is how it should be. They go lyrical after that, and the music for that is a little more toned back. By looking at the lyrics and listening to the music, the first part is supposed to be a revisitation to the song The Mirror from Awake. They even pull a short piece of music straight out of The Mirror and use it as a transition into the second part of the song, which seems to borrow a bit from The Glass Prison lyrically. There are a couple parts to this song where James LaBrie is doing the "screaming into a megaphone pointed at the microphone" vocals, and I don't dig on that too much. He kinda raps during that part, and it doesn't really work for me. The music behind it does though. It's this really stacatto rhythm with a lot of triplets, and it's sweet.

Endless Sacrifice - This song opens pretty slow, with some cool clean guitar lines, but then drops into a thundering rhythm for the chorus. The song builds slowly during the next verses, then goes nuts in the gratutious (and obligatory) extended instrumental section in the middle. Petrucci and Jordan Rudess have their fun while exchanging lead lines. Cool stuff. Once they've had their fun, they bust back into the main flow of the song with a peppier version of the chorus riff, and finish things off with a lot of energy. This is probably my favorite song off the album right now.

Honor Thy Father - This song opens up with a really off-beat rhythm, then slows down into a more subdued sound for the verses. Rudess brings out a huge sound for the bridges, laying a high synth line over the thunder of the guitar and bass. Sounds really cool. The jam session in the middle of the song is really sweet, but they have one of those White Zombie-esque tracks of weird conversation clips overlaying the music, and it's weird. Takes away from the sweetness of the jam. I never liked those talk tracks anyways.

Vacant - This is a very short by DT standards (only about 3 minutes), but it's also not one of their jam fests. Its a somber sounding tune, and it only has bass, keyboards, and a cello plus lyrics. It's cool sounding, and almost a welcome break from the fury.

Stream of Consciousness - This song is an instrumental, and with Dream Theater, instrumentals are always fun. They continue some of the musical themes and progressions started by Vacant and expands with drums and guitar. Very cool. A good portion of the song has a constant driving beat, perfect for flying down the highway at speeds exceeding the legal limit... :-D

In the Name of God - This one also starts kind of slow, but the rhythm has a 3 part harmony (or so it would seem to my untrained ears) between bass, guitar, and keys that sounds really cool. The verse riff in this one is sweet... pretty simple, but sweet. The song kinda gets a little drawn out in the middle, but they break into a much cooler section after that, and it sounds really big. They break into a solo section after that, which sounds really cool. The solos that stand out for me are the ones that are probably the easiest to play - a long series of hammer-ons and pull-offs that seem analgous to a trip up and down a hill, but it's really neat nonetheless. The song finishes quite slowly, and the album finishes with a cool piano lick.

Before you know it, 69 minutes and 21 seconds have passed, and the album is done. If you're like me you're already reaching for the remote to start the CD over again. There are only 7 tracks on the CD, but the album definitely isn't lacking. It's not the prog-metal masterpieces that some of their previous albums were, but I don't think they were aiming at that. Overall, it's sweet, and if you dig on heavy metal with a lot of parts and solos, you'll probably like this disk. Grade: A.

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Monday, November 17 2003, 9:15 PM

Yah, been a while since the last post, and I've been kinda lazy, since some stuff has actually gone on. The most eventful day was last Sunday - I volunteered to work from 6pm-midnight to get a couple extra hours, and for the first 5:45 of the shift, it was pretty uneventful. Then like 15 minutes before I was supposed to leave, a server got all fubar'ed, and I had to stay later and fix it up. Sucked. I was there until 6am fixing it... needless to say I didn't come in that day.

The new Dream Theater album came out on tuesday, and it's pretty sweet. I'll post a seperate review about that in a minute. I also saw the Matrix Revolutions on the night it came out, but I don't want to post a review until I see it again. I was too busy watching to pay full attention to exactly what was going on... heh.

Friday night, I went down and hung with Jon, Michelle, and Chris, and we checked out this bar/pub that we've been meaning to visit for a while now. It's called The Box Bar, and it's down in Plymouth. It's a pretty cool place, and the beer selection is *stellar*. Like 650 beers on the list, with 40 on tap. We all sampled the exotic stuff, and also had a few old standbys. It was a cool place. The weekend was pretty calm... I worked a few hours on saturday for some extra hours, and nothing died this time, which is definitely good. I went down and visited the fam on sunday. I hadn't seen them for a month or so, and I was long overdue to clean the mess I left in my room when I moved out. It's nice and clean now, which makes my parents quite happy. My dad made some chicken chili for dinner, and it was great, as always. I've only been out of the house for a month or so, and I already miss a home cooked meal. I sure as hell can't cook for myself!

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Friday, July 18 2003, 3:34 PM

I had been looking forward to this show for quite a while, and for good reason... it was a great show! We had a decent sized group that went - My dad, cousin Alex, my friends Jon and Matt, and myself. Alex got stuck in traffic so we got a bit of a late start. After grabbing food at Burger King, we made our way out to Pine Knob. The place was suprisingly empty... perhaps it was the threat of thunderstorms, or just that nobody knows good music when they hear it.

We missed Fate's Warning which was kind of a bummer. We came in right during the set change, so we didn't miss any of Queensryche's show, so it wasn't all bad. I wasn't quite sure what to expect out of Queensryche since I've only been a fan of theirs for a few months... Well, they didn't disappoint. They came out rocking and didn't really let up. They led off with a couple heavy songs... I think they were Empire, Damaged, and Walk in the Shadows (in no particular order). The heavy songs absolutely rocked. Then they made me very happy by breaking into a few songs off of Operation Mindcrime (Anarchy X, Revolution Calling, Speak, and Eyes of a Stranger), and those were all way sweet as well. After that, they played Silent Lucidity, Jet City Woman, N M 156, and a few other songs I didn't recognize, plus a new song off their upcoming album. The new song was pretty cool, except there was a pseudo-rap type part in it that was definitely out of place in their style. Overall, they rocked. Geoff Tate has an amazing voice, with the ability to go from the low to high with no difficulty or loss of clarity. Simply a phenominal vocalist. Both of their guitarists are excellent, and played off each other really well. There were quite a few times where they would get together and play harmonized lead lines, and they nailed them. There aren't too many things cooler than when two sweet guitarists are in sync and excelling at their craft. Grade: A.

Dream Theater was the main reason I went to this show. I've been a huge fan of theirs for about a year now, and they certainly don't disappoint in a live setting. There are plenty of bands who sound good in the studio but can't carry that precision and intensity on the road. Dream Theater certainly isn't in this class. They come out with the energy of a hurricane and never relent. they opened up with one of their best songs, Metropolis Part I, and then carried the theme on by playing the first couple songs off of Scenes From a Memory (Overture 1928 and Strange Deja Vu). That was a good solid 15 minutes of sheer prog-metal bliss. Jon was quite impressed, since they played Metropolis and then went straight into the other songs, without stopping. It is pretty amazing that anyone has the stamina to do that, since all those songs are very lead oriented and would probably turn the bodies of mere mortals to jello in short order. After that, they calmed things down a bit and played Hollow Years. After that I don't remember the exact order, but they played a good selection of songs... They played the whole Mind Beside Itself trilogy (Erotomania, Voices, and The Silent Man), Under a Glass Moon, Solitary Shell, Pull Me Under, one song I didn't recognize (could be off When Day and Dream Unite, I don't own that one and have never heard it... also could have been new!), and maybe one other song. The only thing that disappointed me about their set was that the mixing seemed a bit off... The keyboards and vocals seemed a bit too loud, and the mics on the drums were too quiet. Mike Portnoy's double bass runs were hardly audible, which is quite a shame. They bring a lot of energy to the songs. John Petrucci was on (as per usual). It's really not fair how good he is. His playing is precise, effortless, and incredibly fast. John Myung's bass was just as amzing... He plays without a pick on a six string bass, and can probably keep up with Petrucci in just about any circumstance. He's got to be the most active bass player I've ever seen. Portnoy was his energetic self, dropping synchopated rhythms and bass drum heroics with no effort at all. Jordan Rudess's keyboard was also pretty incredible... he totally Wowed Alex with some of the lines played. Grade: A+

Dream Theater finished up at about 10:25 with the usual "Thank you goodnight, see you in 45 seconds for the encore" spiel, and I expected to see them come out and play another couple songs and then call it a night... Well, they did, but I was very plesantly suprised when Queensryche came out and took the stage with them!! All 10 people from both bands were out there playing... The first song they played was Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, and they nailed it. Geoff Tate sang the Roger Waters part, and James LaBrie took care of the David Gilmour Part. Their voices were a perfect match, almost as good as Waters and Gilmour. One of Queensryche's guitarists handled the first solo beautifully, and Petrucci took care of the second one with authority. I would have loved to have that one on tape... Next, they all played The Spirt Carries On (a Dream Theater tune). The studio version of that song has a female voice singing for a while in the middle of the song, and Tate took that part on and nailed it. I wouldn't have expected a male voice to sound right there, but it sounded great. It's another tribute to his voice that he can sing in such a gentle way. That song is quite long, with lots of solos... The cool thing was that Petrucci was the one handling the rhythm for the most part, and the Queensryche guys were playing his solos! Quite a cool display. The last song of the night was a Queensryche song, but I'm not sure of the name of it (maybe Best I Can?). It was quite a jam, and the hightlight of it for me was seeing both drummers playing along side of each other inside of Portnoy's Siamese Monster drum kit in perfect unison. They also did the reverse of the Dream Theater song here, with Petrucci handling the solos and the Queensryche guitarists holding down the rhythm fort.

Overall, I couldn't really ask more out of a concert. Sure, Dream Theater's mix could have been a bit better, but that could also be a result of the spot where we were sitting. Seeing two incredible bands perform their best material would have been good enough, but seeing them together for the encore made it truly memorable. Grade: A+++

Matt also posted a review, and it can be viewed here.

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